Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events which Have Occurred in the Western States and Territories, from the Discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-six |
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... thousand Indians assembled to rescue their chief , and expel the invaders . The Spaniards were suddenly attacked with great fury ; the battle lasted all day ; the town was burned , eighty - three Spaniards , with forty - two horses ...
... thousand Indians assembled to rescue their chief , and expel the invaders . The Spaniards were suddenly attacked with great fury ; the battle lasted all day ; the town was burned , eighty - three Spaniards , with forty - two horses ...
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... thousand livres worth of goods , and near twenty - five thousand livres both in coin and in plate . The assassins had force and bold- ness on their side ; they had shown themselves capable of the greatest crimes ; accordingly they met ...
... thousand livres worth of goods , and near twenty - five thousand livres both in coin and in plate . The assassins had force and bold- ness on their side ; they had shown themselves capable of the greatest crimes ; accordingly they met ...
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... thousand northern Indians , on the day appointed , was at the spot ; but Bienville , who had returned as the king's lieutenant to that southern land which he had aided to explore , was not where the commanders from above expected to ...
... thousand northern Indians , on the day appointed , was at the spot ; but Bienville , who had returned as the king's lieutenant to that southern land which he had aided to explore , was not where the commanders from above expected to ...
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... thousand pounds of supposed copper ore , of which four thousand were selected , and with that La Seur descended the Mississippi , and arrived at its mouth on the 10th of February , 1702. It is not known how long the forts , L'Huillier ...
... thousand pounds of supposed copper ore , of which four thousand were selected , and with that La Seur descended the Mississippi , and arrived at its mouth on the 10th of February , 1702. It is not known how long the forts , L'Huillier ...
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... thousand of which were to be located at once . This portion was to be held for ten years , free of quit- rent , provided the company would put there one hundred families within seven years , and build a fort sufficient to protect the ...
... thousand of which were to be located at once . This portion was to be held for ten years , free of quit- rent , provided the company would put there one hundred families within seven years , and build a fort sufficient to protect the ...
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Page 416 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 472 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 472 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government. Provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
Page 747 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...
Page 413 - It is agreed, that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Page 408 - Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. South by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Page 468 - The representatives thus elected, shall serve for the term of two years, and in case of the death of a representative, or removal from office, the governor shall issue a writ to the county or township for which he was a member, to elect another in his stead, to serve for the residue of the term.
Page 470 - The inhabitants of the said territory, shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.
Page 470 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Page 748 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.